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BadFox23415y@bahua I don't even do anything that closely related to development. HND Computer Networking here.
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BadFox23415y@zemaitis I did but then we have stuff like the KDE Plasma Mobile which seems to run pretty well. I'm wondering why there doesn't seem to have been much progress for even the more mainstream Android devices.
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BadFox23415y@irene @RantSomeWhere so it's really just drivers? How do the desktop ones seem to scale well to somewhat similar devices, for example, the UVC driver using lots of different webcams?
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Also, market. It took a fuckton of work on Android to get it to a point where it could be a decent mobile OS, and Android is based on Linux. Standard desktop/user-facing Linux just doesn't have enough money in it to justify that. Then there are other hairy issues like compatibility of apps, and available alternatives (why go for this when Android basically does it anyway? and so on). Today's phones are not just the OS, they're whole ecosystems of products and standard Linux just doesn't have that built up.
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What are the challenges of using standard Linux on phones, perhaps with a phone-optimized desktop environment?
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